Are you all enjoying yourselves? Outside? On this fine Sunday? Great. Really. I couldn't be happier for you. Jerks.
[Note: I tried to post this two days ago, and it didn't work. You know how the saying goes: if at first you don't succeed, fire shots into a Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters.]
Sadly, this post is the by-product of another gorgeous Sunday spent inside at work. In theory, I don't mind working Sundays, but why can't we have some of that hurricane shit when I do?
Good times all around yesterday celebrating Scott's birthday. I don't go to many movies, so I'm probably not a reliable critic, but The Motorcycle Diaries is a pretty sharp film. The scenery along western South America alone is almost worth the ticket price. The film follows a young Che Guevara on his long-ass trip with a friend from Argentina through Chile, Peru, and Colombia to see the continent and spend a few weeks working in a leper colony. The rest, as they say, is history. And history, as they don't really tend to say, often takes unfortunate turns involving the Central Intelligence Agency.
I've been meaning to write about it for a while, but for those of you who don't like to spend your free hours with a Twinkie in one hand and a remote control in the other, there are a ton of good shows in the area this fall. Just last night was Baroness, who need to be seen by everyone, not just fans of heavy music. So epic. Tonight is indie rock/jazz stars Do Make Say Think. Monday at Politics and Prose is a punk-related event with Krist Novoselic (remember that band?) and Mark Andersen (local mainstay author/activist) talking about their recent books. The City Paper slammed Novoselic's Of Grunge and Government, but Mark's presentation will likely make the event worthwhile. The rest of the month finds DC and its environs (take that, Baltimore: you're an environ) hosting out-of-towners Requiem, Witch Hunt, The Faint, Pinback, Magnolia Electric Company, Rachel Jacobs, Karate, and local rockers Q and Not U, Homage to Catalonia, Tradition Dies Here, Ryan Harvey, and more, of course.
And now on to the vomit-inducing part of our program: Hello Kitty debit cards for pre-teens. I hope our handbasket at least has leg room.
Sadly, this post is the by-product of another gorgeous Sunday spent inside at work. In theory, I don't mind working Sundays, but why can't we have some of that hurricane shit when I do?
Good times all around yesterday celebrating Scott's birthday. I don't go to many movies, so I'm probably not a reliable critic, but The Motorcycle Diaries is a pretty sharp film. The scenery along western South America alone is almost worth the ticket price. The film follows a young Che Guevara on his long-ass trip with a friend from Argentina through Chile, Peru, and Colombia to see the continent and spend a few weeks working in a leper colony. The rest, as they say, is history. And history, as they don't really tend to say, often takes unfortunate turns involving the Central Intelligence Agency.
I've been meaning to write about it for a while, but for those of you who don't like to spend your free hours with a Twinkie in one hand and a remote control in the other, there are a ton of good shows in the area this fall. Just last night was Baroness, who need to be seen by everyone, not just fans of heavy music. So epic. Tonight is indie rock/jazz stars Do Make Say Think. Monday at Politics and Prose is a punk-related event with Krist Novoselic (remember that band?) and Mark Andersen (local mainstay author/activist) talking about their recent books. The City Paper slammed Novoselic's Of Grunge and Government, but Mark's presentation will likely make the event worthwhile. The rest of the month finds DC and its environs (take that, Baltimore: you're an environ) hosting out-of-towners Requiem, Witch Hunt, The Faint, Pinback, Magnolia Electric Company, Rachel Jacobs, Karate, and local rockers Q and Not U, Homage to Catalonia, Tradition Dies Here, Ryan Harvey, and more, of course.
And now on to the vomit-inducing part of our program: Hello Kitty debit cards for pre-teens. I hope our handbasket at least has leg room.
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